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Back to episode — Episode 2755 CWSA 02/19/25

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rategy. It's called softening the room. I just wait till the room is softened up and then I give them the solution. Trump's going to do that. So the top DC prosecutor, this is reported in The Hill, a top DC prosecutor is resigning at the EPA because the EPA is seeking a criminal probe of Biden's climate funding. So what this is about is that $20 billion went out the door to several climate-relate…

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et back that money. Now I guess Lee Zeldin is trying to get it back anyway. But so the top DC prosecutor resigned rather than opening some kind of a criminal investigation of how that $20 billion got transferred. And well it looks like a hasty and maybe sketchy way.

But I've got this question. What is the crime? I get that it's sketchy and I get that it's suboptimal and I get that it's sort of a political weasel thing to do. But was there a crime? And if I were a top prosecutor and somebody said go investigate this crime and I said what crime and they said well there's no crime but I think if you look around you might find one, I don't know, I might resign. I might resign. So I assume that most of these things are purely political and has nothing to do with principle. I mean it's kind of hard to imagine anybody's operating on principle at this point. But I would like to see a little more indication of crime before I see the investigation.

Now I assume in the real world sometimes there are investigations under the assumption that there's probably a crime, but I don't know where that standard starts and ends. But I'm a little worried. I don't want the team that I'm backing to be doing unrestricted lawfare now even if it's getting revenge. Nope, not good enough. So this might be totally appropriate and I'm definitely concerned about this $20 billion. I would definitely like it to be clawed back. I definitely think it looks sketchy. But is there a crime? I'm going to need to hear there was a crime for me to be in favor of this.

Department of Homeland Security helicopters have been getting struck by lasers near the Mexican border. So presumably

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that's the cartel. Fox News, Michael Lee is reporting on this. And I guess they've been targeted by lasers about six times now. Lasers meaning not a laser weapon but like a laser pointer. Apparently if you point that at a pilot it can blind them. So even though it might not do it if you were closer to it, there's something about the distance I guess that could make it blind the pilot. So it's very…

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